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Kumar Sangakkara Test record against South Africa

2000-07-20 – 2014-07-24 · Available official international scorecards

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The record at a glance

This study covers 17 Test matches against South Africa with recorded batting or bowling figures: 32 batting innings and 1 bowling innings. Matches with no batting or bowling entry for this player are outside this sample.

Batting runs and dismissals; bowling runs conceded and wickets
DisciplineInningsRunsWickets / outsAverageStrike rate
Batting321,5343247.9356.52
Bowling140N/AN/A

Batting average = runs ÷ dismissals; batting strike rate = runs per 100 balls. Bowling average = runs conceded ÷ wickets; bowling strike rate = legal balls per wicket. Rates require fully recorded inputs. A hyphen means unrecorded; N/A means a zero denominator.

Bowling economy: 4.00 runs per six legal balls. Legal balls recorded: 6.

Batting milestones in this sample: 3 centuries and 7 scores from 50 to 99. Balls faced: 2,714.

CAREER BY FORMAT

How the record developed

Available scorecards

Formats are shown separately. These totals cover published scorecards against the twelve national teams; they can differ from complete official career records.

Test

Test · Runs by year
  1. 2000174 runs
  2. 2001144 runs
  3. 2002157 runs
  4. 2004367 runs
  5. 2006340 runs
  6. 2011111 runs
  7. 201269 runs
  8. 2014172 runs
Exact yearly figures · 8 seasons
Test archive totals by year
YearMatBat innsRunsHSAvgSR100s50s4s6sBFBowl innsWktsBowl avgEconBowl SR
2014241727643.0063.700220127000N/AN/AN/A
201212693534.5042.070010016400N/AN/AN/A
20112411110827.7554.411013020400N/AN/AN/A
200623340287113.3361.591046055200N/AN/AN/A
20042436723291.7573.991254249610N/A4.00N/A
2002241578939.2565.690125023900N/AN/AN/A
2001241449836.0045.280121031800N/AN/AN/A
2000471747424.8536.940119147100N/AN/AN/A

Home, away and neutral conditions

Setting follows the recorded host country. Unknown locations are retained as unknown; venue names alone are not guessed.

Opposition record by match setting
SettingMatchesBat innsRunsBat avgBat SRBowl innsWicketsBowl avg
Home91696260.1262.5010N/A
Away81657235.7548.6800N/A
SCORECARD MILESTONES

Career timeline

Milestones found in available scorecards. The first recorded appearance here is not necessarily the international debut.

  1. First available scorecard

    Test v South Africa · Galle International Stadium

  2. First century in this archive · 232 runs

    Test v South Africa · Sinhalese Sports Club Ground

  3. Highest recorded innings · 287 runs

    Test v South Africa · Sinhalese Sports Club Ground

  4. Latest available scorecard

    Test v South Africa · Sinhalese Sports Club Ground

Recent recorded innings

Scorecards supporting this opposition study
DateVenueInningsRunsBallsWicketsConceded
2014-07-24Sinhalese Sports Club Ground37290--
2014-07-24Sinhalese Sports Club Ground101--
2014-07-16Galle International Stadium476145--
2014-07-16Galle International Stadium22434--
2012-01-03Newlands33489--
2012-01-03Newlands23575--
2011-12-26Kingsmead3108190--
2011-12-26Kingsmead103--
2011-12-15SuperSport Park328--
2011-12-15SuperSport Park113--
2006-08-04P Sara Oval43964--
2006-08-04P Sara Oval21431--
2006-07-27Sinhalese Sports Club Ground2287457--
2004-08-11Sinhalese Sports Club Ground36458--
2004-08-11Sinhalese Sports Club Ground1232357--
2004-08-04Galle International Stadium4--04
2004-08-04Galle International Stadium31316--
2004-08-04Galle International Stadium15865--
2002-11-15SuperSport Park389132--
2002-11-15SuperSport Park13538--

This opposition study uses available scorecards in Crickrida’s twelve-team publication scope. It is a dated archive analysis, not a claim of complete career coverage. Read the coverage and calculation method.